Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On top of that, th…

- Samuel Mockbee

Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.

- Samuel Mockbee

Theory and practice are not only interwoven with one’s culture but with the responsibility of shaping the environment, of breaking up social complace…

- Samuel Mockbee

I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble.

- Samuel Mockbee

The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.

- Samuel Mockbee

It's not about your greatness as an architect, but your compassion

- Samuel Mockbee

The hand expresses what the heart already knows.

- Samuel Mockbee

The Goal is not to have a warm, dry house, but to have a warm, dry house with a spirit to it.

- Samuel Mockbee

If architecture is going to nudge, cajole, and inspire a community to challenge the status quo into making responsible changes, it will take the subv…

- Samuel Mockbee